I 



i88 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



spread 66^ inches. Mr. Decatur writes that the 

 present spread is 65^^ inches. The number of 

 points is 13 + 12; greatest palmation 13^^ inches. 

 A pair of moose antlers presented to Edward 



F. H. Cook's New Brunswick Moose-Head 



VII., when, as Prince of Wales, he visited Canada 

 in i860, was long considered as having the widest 

 spread recorded for New Brunswick, Maine, or 

 Nova Scotia. The antlers were taken in the 

 Canaan River country of New Brunswick by Sir 

 Harry Burrard, and measured 62 inches.'^ The 

 weight of antlers and dried skull was 56 pounds.'^ 



'5 With Rod and Gun in New England and the Maritime Provinces 

 (Boston, 1897), p. 266. 



Dr. A. Leith Adams, Field and Forest Rambles (London, 1873), p. 



89. 



